Association of Jewish Libraries - Blogs for and about Jewish Libraries

The AJL blog

People of the Books AJL's official blog, maintained by Heidi Estrin
The Book of Life podcast -- supported in part by AJL
AJL's Sydney Taylor Book Award blog

Blogs of AJL chapters:

AJL NYMA, the New York Metropolitan Chapter, whose site contains recordings of many of the presentations made at their fall and spring conferences -- www.ajlnyma.org
Cleveland-- http://classicjewishchildrensbooks.blogspot.com/
Sunshine State Safranim-- http://www.sfajl.blogspot.com/
Southern California Chapter-- http://ajlsc.org/home.html

University blogs

Hebrew Union College-- by AJL members Phil Miller, Yaffa Weisman, & Sheryl Stahl
Mekorot--Blog of the Librarians of the Jewish Theological Seminary features "reviews and discussion of new and classic sources in Jewish Studies, bibliographical notes, and edifying tidbits."
The Jewish Theological Seminary Library also has a site called Takeaway where they share questions submitted to the reference staff and the answers they've provided.
Yeshiva University Libraries maintains a blog.

Hebrew-language blogs:

Judaica Librarians' Group in Israel http://safranim.wordpress.com/
University of Haifa--Iris Igra http://liblog.haifa.ac.il/
Tel Aviv University http://blog.tau.ac.il/libraries/

Blogs about Jewish books:

AJL member Daniel D. Stuhlman writes articles and columns at at his blog entitled Librarian's Lobby and also maintains a blog called Kol Safran
Steve Bergson on Jewish comics -- http://jewishcomics.blogspot.com
Jewish Books for Kids with Barbara Bietzfeatures interviews with authors who write Jewish books for children.
Hebrewbooks.org, the Society for the Preservation of Hebrew Books, that scans Torah sefarim --http://blog.hebrewbooks.org/
The Jewish Book Council's blog, exploring the world of Jewish literature, is called The Prosen People
Jewish Book Carnival, sponsored by Association of Jewish Libraries, is a monthly roundup of Jewish literary blogs.

Blogs and Blogging in the School Library

Social Software Goes to School: Blogs, and Wikis in the Media Center
Presented by Karen Ulric, Library Media Specialist, Solomon Schecter Day School of Essex and Union;
West Orange, NJ at the 2007 AJL-NYMA Spring Conference.